William Arnold Parker
	Photo courtesy of Dan and Mary Nell Milligan.
Wife Sue WILLIAMSON Father Elder W. Jacob PARKER Mother Henrietta A. SIMMONS Children Albert PARKER Goodwyn B. PARKER William Albert PARKER Eula M. PARKER W. Jacob PARKER Joseph E. PARKER Mary Emma PARKER Lilburn Louis Fox PARKER John PARKER Douglas PARKER George W. PARKER	William Arnold was born on 23 Sep 1848 in Choctaw County, Alabama. William, his sons, his father, and his great-grandfather were Baptist preachers. William A. married Sue M. Williamson on 4 Aug. 1868 at the New Hope Baptist House of Worship in Clarke County, Alabama, by his father W. Jacob Parker. The marriage required his father's written consent because William was under 21 years of age. William died on 23 Jan 1914; he was 65. He is buried in Mount Enterprise, Rusk, Texas at the Shiloh Cemetery. The cemetery is located southeast of Minden, just off Highway 315. View his tombstone.
"On the third Sunday in March, 1890, the First Baptist church [of Thomasville, Clarke Co.] was organized...Rev. W.A. Parker was chosen the first pastor...On the following fifth Sunday the Baptist Sunday school was organized with forty-two members. They built a large church on the lot now occupied by the pastorium." by John Simpson Graham, History of Clarke Co., Alabama, 1923, facsimile reprint 1991, Birmingham Printing Co., reprint by Heritage Books, p. 190.